Jamie Raskin

We're going to drop

the whole matter, despite the fact that they had promised to release it and now are engaged in the most remarkable evasions in order to explain why they don't care anymore.

But all of this bespeaks an incredible politicization of the Department of Justice and its conversion into an instrument of the political will of the president.

Well, right, they're not looking for qualified Republican U.S.

attorneys.

They're looking for unqualified Republican U.S.

attorneys, that is, those people who demonstrate nothing other than personal fidelity to Donald Trump.

people who don't have any sense of what the law is or what prosecutors are supposed to do.

Remember, there's a constitutional oath there.

There's a professional oath.

There are rules of the legal profession, all of which are being betrayed and ignored in this process.

The

Committee on the Judiciary's responsibility is to try to uphold the rule of law in America and to make sure that the courts are acting consistently with the Constitution and the rule of law and that the administration is acting consistent with the rule of law and the Constitution.

And right now, we've just entered a period of

chaos and lawlessness.

And we've got to restore respect for the rule of law.

Now, the good news is that more than 400 cases have been brought against this reign of lawlessness in the federal district courts.

And the opponents of Donald Trump, the plaintiffs who are trying to defend the rule of law, have won 96 percent of the cases.

And we're winning similar numbers in the appeals court.

The problem is when you get up